DietroVetro.com

VG (Norway’s largest newspaper) tries to teach the Norwegians how to listen to personalized web radios like Last.fm in today’s paper. Me, my apartment and my lovely MacBook Pro do our best to help. “Kristin stopped downloading” says the headline to the right - and it’s true. Organizing, copying and syncronizing files from computer to computer, to external hard drives and iPods became a bit too demanding in the long run. I don’t want to mainly organize my music. I want to listen to it!

I have never been a fan of the traditional radios where they might play me songs I hate - without the possibility to skip it. I end up changing radio stations all the time. With Last.fm I can even ban the songs with the button that says “Don’t ever play me this song again”. Perfect!

However, it’s not that often Last.fm tries to play me really bad tracks. I guess the service “knows” me by now. It has eventually become quite good at recommending new music to me too. Because it keeps track of what I am listening to, I can easily check the history to find information about the songs I have been listening to lately. I still end up buying the whole album when I discover music I really like, though. But when having friends over, I might just as easily let Last.fm be my DJ, than being bothered with changing the CDs all night.

Check out my Last.fm profile
Listen to my forever expanding playlist
Make your own profile

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at kl. 12:06 and is filed under English, Geeky business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.